Pennsbury High School

This school is very strange because the students range from very low income and very poor students, to very good students with very high income. also, the guidance councilors suck. if i could rate them i would give a 2/10. during the college process they were very unhelpful and didn’t give me the advice fhat u needed

The entire PENNSBURY district is far superior to any school and it's the Teachers that make it that way.

At the time of writing this review I am currently a senior at Pennsbury High School. While some people may complain about how "terrible" this school is, your education here is really what you make of it. I have known kids who thrive in both all parallel and in all AP classes and have loved every second of it. It's true that there are some small faults with the school- some of the teachers can be hard to work with and the extracurriculars will push you. But at the same time there are so many more positives to outweigh these tiny issues. Many teachers here who will spend hour after school with you making sure that you get an A+ on your next test. The extracurriculars will help shape you into a much more mature student and push you to try your hardest. Even the councillors get to know you personally and can really help a lot both in working out every day problems that you may have and the huge task of applying to college. Overall Pennsbury is a great place to learn and grow.

PHS is a very large school with 3000+ students moving between two adjacent campuses. It has many wonderful traditions, great school spirit, and many great opportunities, but there is stiff competition for those opportunities. I've had two kids herel, one who completed 4 years and graduated and one who is a freshman. While we are generally satisfied, and both kids were able to find a niche (one with theater and German Club, one with Marching Band), I can see how a child without a specific focus or interest could find the school very overwhelming. The honors / AP program seems great, and my older daughter had great teachers in honors courses, but the regular track is average and has both teachers who inspired by kids and less-than-wonderful teachers who have bored, or demovited, my kids. Kids must be able to advocate on their own behalf, e.g. to ask for help, to sign up for activities, to find opportunities, and my younger daughter, who is on an IEP, is struggles to ask for the help from teachers that she needs. My kids have also encountered a subculture of drug use and drinking which has caused them to, drop a class, drop a friend, and avoid certain social circles.